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If you have your Bible, let's go to First Kings chapter 19 and verse 5.

I'm just going to take the first Kings chapter 19 that whole chapter

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first Kings chapter 19 with it I'm going to also target or touch on the issue of depression pretty much on

developing routines on beating depression in 2022 now you may say you may come here today and you're like

well depression is not my problem you don't know what 22 has in store for you.

There's a lot of challenges that each person, each group's experience that bring enormous amount of stress, enormous amount of depression. Because our church is more younger, among the millennials, the number one cause of death has been in the last two years a suicide, not COVID.

More people are dying among young people today because they're taking their own life than COVID, car accidents, or other illnesses.

And depression is rising and it's rampant in the United States. It's rampant

in our generation. And I want to address that by touching on the things from the scripture and how

we can prevent and how we can overcome stressful, overwhelming, and difficult times. First and

foremost, I'm not a doctor. Also, I'm not a therapist or a counselor. I'm a preacher. So I'm going to talk about the word of God. I'm going to speak on from the word of God and I'm not going to touch on the areas that I don't know or I'm not an expert in. But looking at the story of Elijah, before we go to the story of Elijah, I want to mention the depression is a mood disorder characterized by extreme sadness, poor concentration,

sleep problems, loss of appetite and feelings of guilt, helplessness, and hopelessness.

Winston Churchill said, depression followed me around like a black, black dog all my life.

A young lawyer in 1800s suffered such a deep depression that his friends did everything

they could to keep all razors and knives away from him. He wrote these words, I am now the most

miserable men living. Whether I shall be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forbore, I shall not.

This lawyer became the 16th president of the United States his name was Abraham Lincoln Charles Spurgeon who's considered the best

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